Thursday, 27 June 2013

100 metres of thread

Yesterday I posted my entry for CQ Horizons exhibition at Festival of Quilts. I was stitching the facing and sleeve on late of Tuesday night - I'd taken time off work on Monday and Tuesday to do that but couldn't resist adding extra stitching -it's addictive!! I reckon I've used over 100 metres of thread, estimated from counting the lines on the back (above).

I did the majority of the stitching (thanks Hilary for the photo of me in action!) while on Summer school retreat at Farncombe , a joy to be among supportive company in a peaceful, beautiful landscape, well fed and watered.

Re-purposing old textiles combined with painting with acrylics and hand stitch brought together what I love best . I've still got some of this old red and white strippy quilt left and am pondering how best to use it in a similar fashion